b.f. maiz Lecture to feature Dr. Toru Kiuchi

Waynesburg University’s b.f. maiz Lecture will be Monday, March 2, at 7 p.m. in Alumni Hall and will feature Dr. Toru Kiuchi. Admission is free, and the public is cordially invited to attend.

Kiuchi is a professor of English at Nihon University in Tokyo, Japan. He is currently a Fulbright Visiting Scholar doing research on Richard Wrights Haiku at Yale University.

He is a published Haiku poet and the editor-in-chief of Ten [Sable], a Haiku magazine; a vice chairman of the Japan Association of Haiku Poets; an executive committee member and trustee of the Haiku International Association, Japan; a Japanese translator of Richard Wright’s “Haiku: This Other World”; and an author and editor of Haiku collections.

He has authored eleven books including “Richard Wright: A Documented Life, 1908-1960,” and “The Critical Responses in Japan to African American Writers.” He has also given more than 30 presentations and invited lectures at conferences in Canada, China, Egypt, France, Korea and the United States.

The b. f. maiz Center, named after the late poet b. f. maiz, exists to continue and to amplify his lifelong concerns with poetry, peace and poetic justice. This speaker is invited to campus as part of the b.f. maiz Center’s activities.